Online highs are as old as the net: the first e-commerce was a marijuana deal between Stanford and MIT students

"In 1971 or 1972, Stanford students using Arpanet accounts at Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory engaged in a commercial transaction with their counterparts at Massachussetts Institute of Technology. Before Amazon, before eBay, the seminal act of e-commerce was a drug deal. The students used the network to quietly arrange the sale of an undetermined amount of marijuana." --John Markoff This article in an oldie but goodie:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/apr/19/online-high-net-drugs-deal